Farewell Blog
It will be 3 years soon.
Three years that I’ve spent babying this blog as if it were a houseplant.
A very high maintenance houseplant.
Mind you, I don’t have any plants, because anything I have to care for beyond the kids, hubby, the home, the business and the parakeets, well, it wouldn’t make it.
But I have had plants. Plants that I’ve nurtured and grown from seeds.
That I took pride in caring for.
That I watched bloom into something beautiful. And then I’d get another plant. Something I found lovelier, that was a better match for my life, that needed my care and the first plant would get neglected.
And then life will get super busy and the 2nd plant will get neglected.
And then I’d start to resent both plants because they start to die and getting them back on track to healthy would just be too time consuming.
This is what has happened to both this blog and The Strategic Mama.
And at this point in life, one blog has to go to save the other.
And it will have to be this one.
Why Does It Have To Be This Blog?
The one of the two with the better alexa and all the lovely backlinks and the sizeable amount of G+ peeps and an actual sum of FB fans? The blog that actually made me a few thousand in affiliate sales for two years?
Why keep the one that’s barely known and has the alexa of 800k?
I’m not deleting it.
You just won’t find me here, I’ll be over at The Strategic Mama aka TSM.
It’s like keeping the pot but not planting anything new in it.
It’s a good pot, I don’t want to throw it away, I just don’t want to be here.
Outgrowing The Blog
By: Vox Efx
Have you noticed I’m no longer the “after bedtime blogger”?
This blog morphed as it grew.
And so have I.
My having new goals, wanting other things…
Feeling constrained by what this blog was suppose to be…
Conflicted by what it is and frustrated by how really unorganized it is…
And always feeling guilty about not blogging here.
It happens to many of us.
I’ve moved several blogs the past two months because their owners had outgrown them.
I’ve outgrown this one.
The Process Has Begun
I’ll be hiring Alison of Little Love Media on a Social Media Strategy for TSM – cause gawd knows nobody knows about The Strategic Mama blog and Alison is kick ass and a total pro when it comes to building your presence across social media.
Kate/Sew Gaelic will be making me custom TSM swag to give away to clients – t-shirts and totes. Check out the custom logo t-shirt Kate made for RealMomma.com.
I started the move a few months ago when I moved the Google Luv Course to The Strategic Mama’s WP + SEO Training Blog..
Sidenote: the WP training library is a resource of how-to videos for those moving to wordpress or already on WP and feeling frustrated from it. I mean WP can be intimidating, so, The WP Video Library Membership is $1/year. Know how to use WP but never heard of BulletProof? Yep, this library is for you.
I’ve moved over the seo posts and if you find them in Google Search they will redirect to TSM.
I will be moving over my WordPress posts. I’m not moving everything. I don’t want this blog to die completely, I just don’t want to feel obligated to it. And guilty over it.
I want to drop by when I’ve got a PSA or I want to rant about FB or my kids.
I want to empty my head here.
When I feel like it.
Ya know?
and i know i know, the gurus say blog regularly so people will come by on schedule.
so why the hell do i auto tweet from this blog and have a rss feed?
I’m not chained, right?
So there you have it.
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Don’t be a stranger! Drop by and visit me at The Strategic Mama.
Check out the free seo webinar I did with sverve.
And Jason Fonceca and I are on the verge of launching a pretty hot ebook – Complete Game Changer!
Keep an eye out!
Photo By: Mikkel Zibrandtsen
Absolutely beautiful, Vanita. Adore the plant analogy
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That’s… Life.
Better to have one good healthy plant than two wilty little suckers. Knowing you you’ll be back quicker and better than ever before.
Did you know cold yesterdays pizza is yummo? Catch you on the flipside.
Jan Bierens recently posted..Why YOU are your key investment
I hear ya’ Jan. Funny that the one good healthy one is doing well even at 1 post every two weeks. lol. only so many hours in the day, ya know?
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Sometimes, it’s better to let go of something loved when it begins to feel heavy. I know that feeling very well. I applaud you for taking this step, knowing that it’s good for you and your business.
Looking forward to working with you, my friend. TSM will kick ass!
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I’m glad it won’t be going completely away. But I’ll be happy to see you over at TSM more. =]
Yes yes I know I have work to do on my about and services and such I’m trying!
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Kudos to you Vanita…we’ve got to let go of the old to move into the new, be it our blog or stuff in our life…it’s just not always easy.
Now I’m imagining all the wonderful things awaiting you in your new place.
Love Elle
xoxo
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Wow. Good job, Vanita- being aware and forward-thinking and open to evolving and all that good stuff. How bittersweet to make decisions like this. It’s exciting- I’m loving Strategic Mama and I know it’ll be huge, and I know a lot of us will just (have already) just followed you right on over there. You are inspiring.
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The plant analogy is one of my favorites. When I have had to stop nurturing a plant, and the pot was good, I’ve cleaned out the pot and painted it to look decorative. It becomes a nice receptacle of lots of useful things. Nothing ever goes waste. No effort is ever in vain. If nothing tangible, there is always the learning part.
March forth and shine. You were meant to.
I realized today is March 4th. How apt.
Hugs and always on your side.
Vidya
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Pot? What? As long as I know where to find you!
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I had no idea you had so many blogs. How did I manage to miss The Strategic Mama blog? I totally understand morphing a blog when you just have too many to manage. My problem also but I will truly miss this one because this is where we met!
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That all makes a lot of sense. Hope the transition is smooth and looking forward to more great info from the Stategic Mama and the occasional Vanita update here : )
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Hi Van,
I was wondering as I didn’t see notifications from this blog
Thought you might be super busy with your business. Ha… Now I get it. I’ll be start visiting your other blog.
All the best Vanita
Cheers…
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I loved this blog and learnt so much by hanging out here so feeling a little nostalgic. But at the same time I am happy to have found The Strategic Mama. Will see you there now. Lots of love girl!
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Wait. I’m a month late to this news! I understand and had been wondering, without ever directly visiting, why I wasn’t getting any email updates. I understand and look forward to following you on your other blog!
Girl, I totally understand where you’re coming from! I’m actually at that frustrating, guilty, overwhelming point right now with trying to keep up with both of my blogs, two Etsy businesses AND starting to get a life and do more non-interwebby things. It’s HARD!
I completely get it though; You need to focus more attention on the more successful of your two blogs right now, but that doesn’t mean you can’t come back here and just write for the hell of it!
The way I look at it, you have people who care, not only about you and your successful business, but about YOU in general. We (me being one of those people) don’t care about this blog’s alexa or social media standings-We’ll be back just to read about you and your life
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